time's person of the year, from 1927 to 2014

TIME's Person of the Year, from 1927 to 2014

TIME's Person of the Year is bestowed by the editors on the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.

1927: Charles Lindbergh

1928: Walter Chrysler

1929: Owen D. Young

1930: Mahatma Gandhi

1931: Pierre Laval

1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt

1933: Hugh S. Johnson

1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1935: Haile Selassie

1936: Wallis Simpson

1937: Chiang Kai-shek and Soong May-ling

1938: Adolf Hitler

1939: Joseph Stalin

1940: Winston Churchill

1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1942: Joseph Stalin

1943: George Marshall

1944: Dwight D. Eisenhower

1945: President Harry S. Truman

1946: James F. Byrnes

1947: George Marshall

1948: President Harry S. Truman

1949: Winston Churchill

1950: The American Fighting Man

1951: Mohammad Mossadegh

1952: Queen Elizabeth II

1953: Konrad Adenauer

1954: John Foster Dulles

1955: Harlow Curtice

1956: The Hungarian Freedom Fighter

1957: Nikita Khrushchev

1958: Charles de Gaulle

1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower

1960: U.S. Scientists

1961: President John F. Kennedy

1962: Pope John XXIII

1963: Martin Luther King, Jr.

1964: Lyndon B. Johnson

1965: William Westmoreland

1966: Men and Women 25 and Under

1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson

1968: The Apollo 8 Astronauts

1969: The Middle Americans

1970: Willy Brandt

1971: President Richard Nixon

1972: President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger

1973: John Sirica

1974: King Faisal

1975: American Women

1976: President Jimmy Carter

1977: Anwar Sadat

1978: Deng Xiaoping

1979: Ayatollah Khomeini

1980: President Ronald Reagan

1981: Lech Wałęsa

1982: The Computer

1983: President Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov

1984: Peter Ueberroth

1985: Deng Xiaoping

1986: Corazon Aquino

1987: Mikhail Gorbachev

1988: Endangered Earth

1989: Mikhail Gorbachev

1990: President George H.W. Bush

1991: Ted Turner

1992: President Bill Clinton

1993: The Peacemakers: Yitzhak Rabin, Nelson Mandela, F.W. De Klerk, Yasser Arafat

1994: Pope John Paul II

1995: Newt Gingrich

1996: Dr. David Ho

1997: Andrew Grove

1998: Kenneth Starr and Bill Clinton

1999: Jeff Bezos

2000: President George W. Bush

2001: Rudy Giuliani

2002: The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins

2003: The American Soldier

2004: President George W. Bush

2005: The Good Samaritans: Bill Gates, Bono, Melinda Gates

2006: You

2007: Vladimir Putin

2008: President Barack Obama

2009: Ben Bernanke

2010: Mark Zuckerberg

2011: The Protester

2012: President Barack Obama

2013: Pope Francis

2014: The Ebola Fighters

Mark Zuckerberg — TIME's 2010 Person of the Year. Photocollage created using icons from Facebook. Original photo from Martin Schoeller for TIME.

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2014: The Ebola Fighters

The ones who answered the call. They risked and persisted, sacrificed and saved.

2014: The Ebola FightersDr. Jerry Brown, 46, medical director and surgeon in Monrovia, Liberia

2014: The Ebola FightersSalome Karwah, 26, caregiver at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Monrovia

2014: The Ebola FightersDr. Kent Brantly, 33, physician with Samaritan’s Purse

2014: The Ebola FightersFoday Gallah, 37, ambulance supervisor in Monrovia

2014: The Ebola FightersElla Watson-Stryker, 34, health promoter with MSF

2014 Person of the Year runners-up

Ferguson Protesters, 2014 Person of the Year Runner-Up

The Activists, Painting by Titus Kaphar for TIMETheir refusal to let a life be forgotten turned a local shooting into a national movement

Vladimir Putin, 2014 Person of the Year Runner-Up

The Imperialist, Portrait by Pavel Sokov for TIME Russia’s increasingly isolated President is on a mission to restore his country’s lost empire

Massoud Barzani, 2014 Person of the Year Runner-Up

The Opportunist, Portrait by Jason Seiler for TIME When ISIS threw the Middle East jigsaw puzzle into the air, the Kurdish leader reached for a pie

Jack Ma, 2014 Person of the Year Runner-Up

The Capitalist, Portrait by Jason Seiler for TIME The Alibaba founder combined an entrepreneur’s ambition with political savvy in China to pull off the biggest Wall Street debut in history

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